Student projects

The Sixth Sense Belt

Date: September 12, 2024 Category: Student projects Tags: Course project, Interaction Design, Physical Computing, Prototyping Comments: 0

The Sixth Sense belt emulates what it would be to have a sixth sense of one's surroundings. Being able to feel any obstacles that one might encounter. Effectively visually impaired individuals, who use a white cane would be able to replace it for the Sixth Sense belt, in calmer environments. It works by using ultra-sonic sensors as a mode of input, and a combination of buzzers and vibrations as modes of output Components: Ultra-sonic sensors Vibration Motors (with transformers for wiring) Passive Buzzers Arduino UNO Project members: Thias Kochen & Patrick Grevinge DATE 11th June 2024

Abstract Representation of Air Quality in the Home

Date: June 12, 2024 Category: Student projects Tags: Interaction Design, Master Thesis, Prototyping, Research project Comments: 0

The living room: Tangible Explorations of the Symbiosis in the home Air pollution, in the form of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), affects both climate change and general public health negatively. It is estimated that air pollution causes around 7 million premature deaths per year, and is the biggest factor that negatively impacts public health globally. Exposure to PM2.5 particles over a longer period of time heightens the risk for lung and heart diseases, including lung cancer. PM2.5 is often considered in outside air pollution concerns, but is also present inside homes, in the form of dust or mold etc. or created by activities such as…

Materializing the future of fertility

Date: June 3, 2024 Category: Student projects Tags: Bachelor thesis, Interaction Design, Prototyping Comments: 0

This project provides an exploration of fertility challenges within a Danish context, addressing the trend of the rising average age of first-time parents and the increasing demand for fertility treatments. In relation to the increased focus on reproductive technologies, the speculative concept of ectogestation creates the foundation for this project. Ectogestation deals with the possibility of extrauterine pregnancies. In this project, a speculative design artifact named COCOON materializes a scenario of a disembodied pregnancy, presenting a platform for discussions surrounding hopes, concerns, and considerations regarding fertility, and the preferred role of reproductive technologies in the future. COCOON is a wearable womb that allows people to…

Exploring Futures of Sexuality: Cloud Breathe Lust

Date: March 1, 2024 Category: PhD Project, Research, Student projects Tags: Affective design, Interaction Design, Intimacy, Master Thesis, Prototyping, Research project Comments: 0

Cloud Breathe Lust is a speculative design artefact that explores the relationship between erotic aspects of sexuality and inclusive technologies. Inspired by sex toys and soma design, it engages the body and creates somatic sensations through breathing and temperature changes while also being a communication tool for the feeling of lust in a teasing way. It involves two persons. When one breathes into the cloud, the air is translated into heat on the other person's arm as an indication of lust, and a mediated intimate space is established. The experience can also be supported by eye contact and whispering between the two persons. The artefact…

Affective Intimacies

Date: February 21, 2024 Category: Student projects Tags: Affective design, Interaction Design, Intimacy, Master Thesis, Prototyping, Research project Comments: 0

BACKGROUND: Sometimes the world is in a state of shock and sometime s that shock shakes us not only as a collective but as individuals. February 24th 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine, an event that surprised us all and started an active war on European ground. My boyfriend was in the army and in the midst of fear and change we had to adjust to a new normal, where he was deployed and I was at home. Fear and distance are the biggest threats to intimacy and now we had to learn and evolve in order to keep that intimacy between us. This experience became the…

Alternative interactions with IVIS interfaces

Date: October 2, 2023 Category: Student projects Tags: Automotive Interaction Design, Driving Simulator, IVIS Interfaces, Medium-Fidelity Prototyping, Research-through-design Comments: 0

A Research Through Design approach to automotive HCI design In recent years, changes in the car industry have brought about increased driver- distraction, which is the leading cause of fatal automotive accidents. A major cause of this can be attributed to the introduction of touchscreen in-vehicle information systems (IVIS), which allows drivers to perform complex Secondary Tasks in relation to the Primary Task of driving. Meanwhile, little consideration is given to the influence that such an industry transition in design might impose on the human driving the car. This calls for new approaches to working with the design of IVIS, which challenge…

Mood Ring

Date: May 15, 2023 Category: Student projects Tags: Bachelor thesis Comments: 0

A speculative exploration of emotions in technology In this speculative design project, we explore how people interact with and reflect upon emotion-sensing technology throug a prototype inspired by the color-changing mood rings that many are familiar with from their childhood. The prototype analyzes one's emotional state by utilizing EEG and a machine learning algorithm. Our project, Mood Ring, is a prototype designed to measure and visualize a user's emotions using brainwave data. We have incorporated several components to create this interactive experience. The Muse 2, a portable headband, captures the user's brainwaves through EEG technology during meditation sessions. These brainwaves, including alpha, beta, delta, gamma,…

Exploring Shock

Date: March 21, 2023 Category: Student projects Comments: 0

This project set out to investigate how the body is affected during the occurrence of shocks, with a focus on the relation between micro-perceptional shocks and larger shocks. Founded on and inspired by affect theory, soma-design methods and research through design, I explored the physical reactions to shock, as well as try to implement them in a design and through this design gain insights to how the soma can be integrated to better understand shock. The design was inspired by the separation of body and soul, and the whole understanding of being only, or showing only parts of yourself was intriguing.This led to the idea…

Thermochromic reflections

Date: September 20, 2022 Category: Student projects Tags: Augmented Reality, Master Thesis, sonic interaction design Comments: 0

In this thesis, we investigate how we can use thermochromic textiles - a textile material with color-changing properties, in an interactive design, in order to explore the material composition between computer and textile. We want to uncover how we can practically apply the properties and qualities of the textile material in a concrete interaction design. The project consists of a longer design process. In the process, we have especially focused on prototyping, in order to be able to work with the material thermochromic textile, which is precisely the focal point for this project. Slow technology has been the overall theoretical framework of this project, and…

Engaging with Local Narratives through AAR

Date: August 30, 2022 Category: Student projects Tags: Augmented Reality, Master Thesis, sonic interaction design Comments: 0

We want to explore how audio augmented reality (AAR) technologies can be utilised in public design manifestations to facilitate affective experiences. We are interested in how AAR can afford engagement with otherwise hidden local narratives about Ørestad through augmentation of public spaces. Ørestad has been met with much criticism and concerns for its future in the media, but the criticism comes from people who do not live there. What do the residents of Ørestad think about living there? We want to facilitate their stories and speculations about the future of Ørestad through an audio augmented experience, where the personal stories of the residents are put…

Activating affective relations on Amager Faelled.

Activating affective relations on Amager Fælled

Date: May 16, 2022 Category: Student projects Tags: Bachelor thesis, Digital Design and Interactive Technologies Comments: 0

This project explores how Copenhageners' affective relations to the nature of Amager Fælled, an urban green area located in the North-western part of Amager in Copenhagen, can be activated through design. Our motivation behind the design project originates from the controversial construction case of the residential area 'Fælledby', which has been a topic of political debate for years. The controversial case highlights the importance of understanding the affective dimension between humans and nature, and we believe that this dimension is particularly relevant to understand as climate changes influence how people perceive the world as well as the future. In the project, we engaged with…

Shoptimal: A new way to shop

Date: May 16, 2022 Category: Student projects Tags: Bachelor thesis, UI Design, User Interface Comments: 0

How can we through speculative design explore traditional UX design conventions in relation to e-commerce, in order to create room for reflection regarding the frictionless user experience? Shoptimal is an app-based design concept meant to explore the potential future of shopping. By allowing the app access to your phone’s camera and your behavioral patterns, while scrolling, Shoptimal will shop online for you. It creates a virtual wishlist, based on what items it has noticed you liked or disliked and orders them for you, allowing the user to get what they want, while remaining surprised. The shopping experience has become completely frictionless, and the user will…

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